Quotes By Lee Child

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.'

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live.

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

Yeah, I am pretty sure of myself.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

It's a tough case and the first time Reacher needs to recruit somebody to help him out. He uses a woman he knew in the army she's a fascinating character.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.